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to change my view, think positive. They make it sound like I can flip a switch and automatically improve every single aspect of my life. It's not easy, I have depression. If I could just flip a switch and be happy and positive don't you think I would have done it already? I've...

If you honestly deal with depression, you know that you "don't have a choice". People who say that happiness is a choice, don't deal with depression. I'm sorry but it's been proven that chemicals off-balanced in the brain, contribute to depression. Telling a person who has been...

I just heard a story on the radio about a woman who travels alone in places like Sudan and the Phillipines in areas where rebels of all different kinds live. She told a couple of stories of how she handled herself when faced by a group of teenage men with guns. She would march...

but Ill try. I feel like a complete failure. I try and try but somethin usually comes up that gets in the way. Im tired of roadblocks. Cant I just have an easy fkn life for once? I try and I try and I try and I try . Some people in my life just keep yelling at me and yelling...

Maybe I'm a dreamer
Maybe I'm misunderstood
Maybe you're not seeing the side of me you should
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe I'm the only one
Maybe I'm just out of touch
Maybe I've just had enough
Maybe it's time to change
And leave it all behind
I've never been one to walk alone
I've...

this is depression , at least for me. you can't see beauty, you can't see color, your soul becomes lost , all thats left is a body and a brain, a brain that is contaminated, and need drugs to clean it. Faces are happy, people are laughing, you watch and stare in envy, wondering...

and you have no control over your mood swings and other peoples views. I hate hearing people say things like "get over yourself" or "your just doing/saying that for attention" I personally have not had to endure that here on EP, but have seen it said to others. it is not the...

this website. People who truly need help are bombarded with other's messages that pretend to care, while they turn the conversation to their problems or offer ridiculous and cliched advice.
There are no magic words to cure true depression. We just want someone to listen, to...

journaling my thoughts in a notebook. Here goes a bit about me:
Neurotic is the perfect word to describe me. I don't feel right mentally. A lot of stuff angers me, and I see the evidence in how deep my pen gouges into the paper or when my body flushes. I've been losing my mind...

Who's with me? I'd like each and everyone of you to join me. This is a fantastic sight and we can begin right here on this page by supporting one another :).
For those of you who don't know where to even begin to fighting this mental illness, let me share with you where I...

There is a reason the subject of mental illness is so vitally important to me. I know it intimately. Having lived with chronic clinical depression most of my life, I've learned to deal with it, to function, to manage. In that way, depression is similar to...

so much yet change so little? So many exterior changes have occurred in my life but psychologically and in regards to depression; I'm in the same situation I've always been in.
I don't take photos anymore because I realised that every memory is painful.
I don't sleep because I...

Warning! This is a fairly long piece. Feel free to get your popcorn now, because this might take a while :P
This was the final paper for an English class that I took last semester. Most kids had about a month and a half to write theirs, while I had a less than a couple of weeks...

READ THIS.
Wanna kill yourself? Imagine this. You come home from school one day. You've had yet another horrible day. You're just ready to give up. So you go to your room, close the door, & you take out that sucide note you've written & rewritten over & over & over. You take...

Everyday it seems that as soon as I enter my room my smile fades. My mind begins to fill with questions, and all I see is shadows. I have been battling depression for about 10 years now. No one has a clue at all, it is my darkest secret. Everything is a blur, I am not happy at...

where he can't deal with my depression any more. I understand how hard it must be for him, but at the same time it's hard for me when he can't support me any more. We don't have sex either. So the two things combined just make me feel hopeless about the future of our marriage. I...

1. Cheer up, turn that frown upside down, think happy thoughts !!
We are of course happy that the solution to our misery is as simple as turning it off and smiling .. why didn't we think of this ourselves? .. oh that's right cos its utter rubbish. Comments like this...

I had a miscarriage when I was fifteen and almost five months pregnant with my baby girl Gianna. It was the most hardest thing I ever went through. It was so horrible. I had an older boyfriend who I was very much in love with. We became intimate three months into our relationship...

and feel like you want to die and all those thoughts, without actually being actively suicidal. The trick is to keep it just a thought, and not let it become an action... I have just discovered this .. I still don't get it myself lol

and was diagnosed with PTSD and Major Depression. My depression was treatment-resistant; fortunately about 10 years later I found an effective antidepressant. I say fortunately, because I know some struggle much longer.
There were days when hope was so far gone and the psychic...

The sweeping hand tick tick ticks, but nothing ever changes. And you need the time to pass. Not because you have anywhere to be; you don’t. You never have anywhere to be. You just need the time to be anywhere but now, here. Tick tick tick. You...

Yes I battle with depression every single day of my life. Its part of my bipolar disorder. Some days are worse than others but Ive found a reason to live so I would never ever kill myself. Last year 2011 was one of the worst years of my life. Ive never fought with depression so...

I tend to obsess about little problems... Often making a molehill into a mountain, as they say.
Depression is a sneaky thief. Robbing us of joy, making us zone out of life, and depriving us of opportunities that will never come again.
I've been upset about our mouse problem...

All my life I was told that I was ugly, fat, worthless, and that I would never be anything. Sometimes, I want to believe those things. But I learned that I am beautiful no matter what my body type is. I am me. No one can change that. I learned that life is too short to stress...

I am quite upset at the moment... At the start of this year, I met a wonderful person on experienceproject when I was in the worst stages of my depression. She was the only one on this website that really offered to help. Due to my memory, I frequently forgot about this place...

and realized...I've been thru so much that my future is years of needing therapy but not getting it cuz I hate shrinks and would rather fix myself anyway and wondering if there's actually a right guy out there that would wanna be with someone who's damaged like me.

how people treat one and other. I have always been a good person. I have gone above and beyond to help others without asking anything in return. I've donated money to all types of charities. I always pick an angel off the giving tree for Christmas. I do all this even when I...

We put on happy faces to hide the fact that we are in fact so depressed, but at the same time, we pray for someone to notice and be able to help. For as long as I can remember, I've been hoping someone would be able to just KNOW that I'm not right, because I do such a good job...

because it happens for an average of 2 weeks at a time. But when it hits, it feels like I am sad even when I'm happy. Like even when I'm laughing at something funny, there's this weight on my chest that I can't get rid of.
And it happens almost every month. It is not good. I...

feels the heavy burden as it settles in
With every ounce of energy I struggle and fight
Only to loose and lie helplessly in it's grips
Tears fill my eyes and I try to shout
But at last I am stuck, their is no way out
-Lisa